Swimming Physiology of Fish, 2013 Towards Using Exercise to Farm a Fit Fish in Sustainable Aquaculture

In light of mounting fishing pressures, increased aquaculture production and a growing concern for fish well-being, improved knowledge on the swimming physiology of fish and its application to fisheries science and aquaculture is needed. This book presents recent investigations into some of the most extreme examples of swimming migrations in salmons, eels and tunas, integrating knowledge on their performance in the laboratory with that in their natural environment. For the first time, the application of swimming in aquaculture is explored by assessing the potential impacts and beneficial effects. The modified nutritional requirements of ?athletic? fish are reviewed as well as the effects of exercise on muscle composition and meat quality using state-of-the-art techniques in genomics and proteomics. The last chapters introduce zebrafish as a novel exercise model and present the latest technologies for studying fish swimming and aquaculture applications.

Part I Extreme swimming in the natural environment

1 Salmonid reproductive migration and effects on sexual maturation

Hayashida K, Fukaya K, Palstra AP, Ueda H

2 Extreme swimming: the oceanic migrations of anguillid eels

Righton D, Aarestrup K, Jellyman D, Sebert P, van den Thillart GEEJM , Tsukamoto K

3 Physiology of swimming and migration in tunas

Shadwick RE, Schiller L, Fudge D

Part II Potential impacts on swimming fish in aquaculture

4 Forced and preferred swimming speeds of fish ? A methodological approach

Tudorache C, de Boeck G, Claireaux G

5 Effects of turbulence on fish swimming in aquaculture

Liao JC, Cotel A

6 The effect of hypoxia on fish swimming performance and behaviour

Domenici P, Herbert, NA, Lefrançois C, Steffensen JF, McKenzie DJ

7 Exercise, stress and welfare

Huntingford FA, Kadri S

Part III Nutrition, energy metabolism and muscular growth in swimming fish

8 Swimming enhanced growth

Davison W, Herbert NA

9 Metabolic fuel utilization during swimming: Optimizing nutritional requirements for enhanced performance

Magnoni LJ, Felip O, Blasco J, Planas JV

10 Transcriptomic and proteomic response of skeletal muscle to swimming-induced exercise in fish

Planas JV, Martín-Pérez M, Magnoni LJ, Blasco J, Ibarz A, Fernandez-Borras J, Palstra AP

11 Molecular adaptive mechanisms in the cardiac muscle of exercised fish

Takle H, Castro V

12 Exercise effects on fish quality and implications for consumer preferences

Rasmussen RS, López Albors O, Alfnes F

13 Swimming effects on developing zebrafish

Kranenbarg S, Pelster B

14 Exercise physiology of zebrafish: Swimming effects on skeletal and cardiac muscle growth, on the immune system and the involvement of the stress axis

Palstra AP, Schaaf M,  Planas JV

Part IV Novel technologies for studying fish swimming and aquaculture applications

15 Swimming flumes as a tool for studying swimming behavior and physiology: current applications and future developments

Ellerby DJ, Herskin J

16 Practical aspects of induced exercise in finfish aquaculture

Herbert NA

17 Robotic fish to lead the school

Rossi C, Coral W, Barrientos A

Written by experts

Richly illustrated in color

Sets directions for policy decisions and future research

A fit fish for a healthy consumer!

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras